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Features

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Past Lives finally pushes the As-Am Diaspora genre into the present

by Sylvia Jiho Lee

Celine Song’s swooning take on being caught between two worlds is a vital step forward for Asian American cinema.
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Festivals

All of Us Strangers – first-look review

by Hannah Strong

Andrew Scott and Paul Mescal are electric in Andrew Haigh’s twist on the modern ghost story, adapted from Taichi Yamada’s cult novel.
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Festivals

Ferrari – first-look review

by Hannah Strong

Michael Mann’s long-awaited Enzo Ferrari biopic is a disappointingly conventional and surprisingly rough portrait of an automotive icon.
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Festivals

El Conde – first-look review

by Hannah Strong

Pablo Larraín imagines Augusto Pinochet as an aged vampire craving death in his gothic satire, which marks his first foray into horror.
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Festivals

The full BFI London Film Festival 2023 line-up has been announced

by Marina Ashioti

Yorgos Lanthimos’ Poor Things and Emerald Fennell’s Saltburn are among the picks of this year’s bumper LFF crop.
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Interviews

How Khadija Zeggaï created the most fashionable film of the year

by Kerensa Cadenas

Ira Sachs’ latest drama features steamy sex, passionate rows, and some of the best cinematic knitwear in years. We speak to the film’s costume designer to find out how the film developed its signature style.
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The long, complex evolution of the blockbuster

by Paul Risker

Nearly 50 years since Jaws changed the shape of cinema, the term ​‘blockbuster’ has come a long way – but not always for the better.
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Interviews

Louis Garrel: ‘When you make an action scene, there’s this tendency to think, “Let’s do it like Heat or Scarface”’

by Elena Lazic

The French star discusses The Innocent, his fourth feature film as a director and a quintessentially French hybrid of romantic comedy and heist thriller.
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The double-edged sword of technology in Scrapper and Past Lives

by Clotilde Chinnici

Charlotte Regan and Celine Song’s debut features represent the conflicting attitudes towards the prominent role technology takes in modern life.
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Interviews

Harris Dickinson: ‘It was actually quite scary improvising with Lola’

by Hannah Strong

The Scrapper star on getting into character, upsetting the make-up department and improvising opposite a tenacious 11-year-old.